Problems creating "-mno-cygwin" DLLs with libtool.

[One Angry User]

On a sunny Wednesday, the second day of February, 2005, Dave Korn's computer emitted the following stream of bytes:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> > Sent: 02 February 2005 04:09
>
> <bock bock b'gawk>
>
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:02:18PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > >>Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>>OTOH, I never have understood why tools insist on including such
> > >>>things as "-lcygwin" or "-lc" on a linker command line.
> > >>
> > >>There's a good reason for libtool to do so, but it escapes me at the
> > >>moment.  Trust Me(tm).
> > >
> > >Innate meanness?  ;-)
> >
> > For the record:  I have nothing to do with libtool.
> >
> > cgf
>
> ..... and therefore, it cannot possibly be mean?  Is that what you meant to
> imply? <g>

Yeah, what kind of world do we live in, when meanness can be copyrighted?!

OAU